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The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., November 11, 1921, page 1

TROUT LAKE TO HAVE ELECTRICITY
Prominent Ex-Service Man Installs 500-Light Plant.

Trout Lake is to have electric lights. A.B. Rosenteil, ex-service man who has lived at Trout Lake for many years and who formerly operated a blacksmith shop at that place, has installed a 500-light plant. The plant is located near his old blacksmith shop on Trout Creek and the swift waters of the stream serve to feed the big water power wheel for the plant. Reports state that quite a number of Trout Lake residents have already spoken for lights. Mr. Rosenteil has the plant nearly completed. The little town of Trout Lake is showing gradual growth and one who has not been in the thriving little center of the Trout Lake valley the past year will be surprised at the many improvements that have taken place. A number of residences have been erected, and now Ralph Woodruff, who last summer erected a modern box factory right in the heart of the town, is building a nice residence opposite the new electric light plant. A quarter of a mile west, the Forest Service has erected a large office building and a large barn. Every where in the valley, improvements are noted, ranchers are either building new homes, new barns or making additions to their present buildings, indicating substantial prosperity in the finest little dairy valley in the world.

The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., November 18, 1921, page 4

ELECTRIC LIGHTS FOR TROUT LAKE

Trout Lake is to have electric lights. A.B. Rosenteil, ex-service man who has lived at Trout Lake for many years and who formerly operated a blacksmith shop at that place, has installed a 500-light plant.
The plant is located, says the Enterprise, near his old blacksmith shop on Trout Creek and the swift waters of the stream serve to feed the big water power wheel for the plant. Reports state that quite a number of Trout Lake residents have already spoken for lights. Mr. Rosenteil has the plant nearly completed.
The little town of Trout Lake is showing gradual growth and one who has not been in the thriving little center of the Trout Lake valley the past year will be surprised at the many improvements that have taken place. A number of residences have been erected, and now Ralph Woodruff, who last summer erected a modern box factory right in the heart of the town, is building a nice residence opposite the new electric light plant.
A quarter of a mile west, the Forest Service has erected a large office building and a large barn. Every where in the valley, improvements are noted, ranchers are either building new homes, new barns or making additions to their present buildings, indicating substantial prosperity in the finest little dairy valley in the world.